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Not all citizens are offered equal health care in the U.S. Barriers like insurance, access to care and discrimination keep a large part of the country’s population from receiving much-needed medicine and procedures. Let’s take a look at what racial disparities exist in health care today.

Partisan rancor nearly blocked a long list of popular bills, but with the impasse broken, the bills have survived. A program to provide healthcare for uninsured Pacific Islanders, and a general assistance program to assist homeless people with housing hit the zeitgeist and received unanimous approval after years of frustration by advocates.

The Senate Democrats gave up SB 1559 as a bargaining chip so that the Republicans would end their filibustering tactics and allow the Senate to finish its work to pass other bills before the end of the session. The bill aimed to combat illegal sales to minors by licensing retailers -- a license that could be revoked for repeat violators.

The Legislature has approved additional money to stop-gap escalating costs for disability services at the Department of Human Services and restored funding for a loan repayment program for doctors and other medical professionals willing to serve Medicaid patients. The Department of Environmental Quality also got $2.5 million to expand air quality monitoring as a result of the Portland heavy metal scare.

The PSU & OHSU IHI Open School Chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program and Students for a National Health Program invite you to: Dr. Joshua Freeman: American Healthcare: Best in the World?

The Health Policy Board considers a vision of more upstream CCO metrics, bonus funding and using the board as a venue for debate on legislation prior to 2017 session.